Wenn Farben lügen

Beatriz González uses strong colors in her representation of pictures, taken from newspapers and magazines, that document Colombia’s political and social climate. She draws inspiration from mass media, reworking and formatting its content in a subjective and lyrical manner. All the while, her paintings remain personal – in an almost intimate way, the newspaper appears as her personal, private diary.

On the occasion of the artist’s large-scale exhibition at KW, we artistically explored collage and the effect of colors in a project week with students from Heinz-Brandt-Schule Berlin. Cutting, painting over, severing and re-arranging: Can colors speak and think? If so, what do they tell us? And can they also lie?

Together with art mediator Alina Rentsch, participating students experimented with the materiality of newspapers and colors. They explored ways to re-write them into their own stories and change their meaning. The resulting collages were collected in a leaflet created individually by each student. By using a folding technique, the stories could be turned and twisted time and again, updating them in the process – almost like an alterable diary.

Artistic project lead and conception:
Alina Rentsch and Tabea Marschall

Project management:
Alexandra Kersten and Duygu Örs